03346nam 2200745 450 991079154950332120230618050518.01-4426-9743-110.3138/9781442697430(CKB)2560000000055911(OCoLC)759157421(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442645(SSID)ssj0000485936(PQKBManifestationID)12168159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485936(PQKBWorkID)10430404(PQKB)11529107(CEL)433756(CaBNvSL)slc00226149(MiAaPQ)EBC3272856(MiAaPQ)EBC4672912(DE-B1597)465216(OCoLC)1013938937(OCoLC)944176566(DE-B1597)9781442697430(Au-PeEL)EBL4672912(CaPaEBR)ebr11258563(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105841(EXLCZ)99256000000005591120160926h20092009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrModernism and the culture of efficiency ideology and fiction /Evelyn CobleyToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2009.©20091 online resource (355 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-9957-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Efficiency and the Great Exhibition of 1851 : elation and doubt -- Efficient machines and docile bodies : Henry Ford and F.W. Taylor -- An experiment in (in)efficient organization and social engineering : Auschwitz -- Efficiency and disciplinary power : the iron cage and the suburb -- Efficiency and population control : Wells, Shaw, Orwell, Forster -- "Criminal" efficiency : Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness -- Efficient management : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love -- Efficiency and perverse outcomes : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier -- Efficiency and its alternatives : E.M. Forster's Howards end -- Efficiency and the perfect society : Aldous Huxley's Brave new world.Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by writers as diverse as Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster identify characters whose attitudes and behaviour patterns indirectly manifest cultural anxieties that can be traced to the conflicted logic of efficiency.Modernism (Literature)Industrial efficiencySocial aspectsTechnological innovationsSocial aspectsEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismTechnology in literatureCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Modernism (Literature)Industrial efficiencySocial aspects.Technological innovationsSocial aspects.English fictionHistory and criticism.Technology in literature.306.4/6Cobley Evelyn1087582MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791549503321Modernism and the culture of efficiency3732605UNINA